New York AG plans criminal investigation into Michael Cohen’s taxes

McConnell’s office also had no comment when asked to weigh in.

“As a legal matter, it’s of zero outcome … the Department of Justice acknowledges, as does the special counsel, that a sitting president can not be indicted”, Levin said.

The muted GOP reaction reflects a hard political calculation for lawmakers ahead of November elections that will determine controls of the House and Senate.

So far, Republican officeholders have condoned Trump’s excesses and outrages so as not to alienate their Trump-supporting constituents, and their reaction to this week’s events has been characteristically evasive.

Mr Sessions, a longtime USA senator and early supporter of Mr Trump’s presidential bid, drew Mr Trump’s ire when he recused himself in March 2017 from issues involving the 2016 White House race.

Dubbed the “Michael Cohen Truth Fund”, the online fundraiser was set up by Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis on Tuesday, the day Davis says Cohen “made the decision to take legal responsibility” and pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance law violations associated with Trump’s campaign for president.

Trump has lashed out repeatedly in the past at Sessions, the Alabama Republican who was the first senator to endorse the celebrity businessman but then recused himself shortly after taking office from the special counsel investigation that led to the criminal cases and is still underway into possible collusion between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign.

Because the hush payments were meant to influence the outcome of the elections, they violated United States laws governing campaign contributions.

Strategas said if Democrats win the House in November, an impeachment effort is likely.

In the Fox interview, an at times rambling Trump stewed over the question of his removal from office: “I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job”.

It’s hard for Trump news to surprise anyone at this point. In April, Trump denied he knew anything about the Daniels payment.

The New York Post says it called Davis back in July to confirm what CNN was saying.

CNN’s report, which cited “sources”, was used by the Democrats and most of the media to claim that there was evidence that Trump colluded with Russian government officials.

And 37 percent disapprove of the special counsel’s work. “I read it, I’ll make a decision”, South Carolina’s Sen. “That the investigations related to the emails were handled with kid gloves”, he said.

“Was this the moment when Republican leaders finally stood up and said “enough”?”

Not just any federal crimes.

Pecker reportedly had a safe full of documents relating to Trump hush money pay off and the disclosure that he like Cohen had flipped clearly unnerved Trump.

The hush money payments were not reported to the Federal Election Commission during the campaign.

In a recent interview with Fox News, Donald Trump himself acknowledged the possibility of impeachment, stating he wasn’t sure if congress could impeach someone who had done “a great job”. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

US President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani warned of a “people’s revolt” if his client, the President, is impeached, even as the walls appeared to close in on the White House occupant with some of his closest aides bailing out on him.